Deploying Win95 image to a new HD

[sleepydvdr]

We have a very old HP Vectra (75mhz) computer that operates some testing equipment. In the past, I have tried to deploy the system to a different computer with no luck. So, I went back to the HP.

The hard drive finally failed and I'm trying to deploy an Acronis image of the system to another HD. The system recognizes the new HD, but gives the error "Invalid system disk. Replace the disk then press any key". I have tried multiple HDs, and each gives the same error. Furthermore, I have set the partition to the same size as the original HD (850 MB).

Would purchasing an identical HD solve this or am I overlooking something?

 

[vacunita]

That would depend on how the Image was created, and where in the new drive the new allotted partition exists.

Win95 could not read drives larger than I believe 2GB and the MBR needs to reside in the first 1024 sectors of the drive. Otherwise it won;t boot.

By the error it looks like there is no valid boot information in the cloned drives which would point to a problem with the creation of the disk image.

I would attempt to install an OLD DOS version: 6.x before Windows on the new target drive, and see if it can boot from it, once that is done you may be able to copy over the image and have Win95 boot.


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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[edfair]

I would probably go one step further and get 95 installed on the drive along with the imaging software. That will give you a good target to restore to and a testbed to create and restore to if you need to sort out problems.

That will depend on whether you still have your install stuff.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[sleepydvdr]

As it turns out, it was the HP Vectra system that was being problematic. We dug up an old IBM and deployed the image to it and everything worked fine. Thanks to everyone for their responses. They did help us in our troubleshooting.